Going on a journey is not about a destination.

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Yet we often only focus on where we will end up.

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We rush to get there.

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Then we rush to get back.

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When we do that we miss the most important part.

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For there will always be more destinations.

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More places to visit, more sights to see.

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Sometimes, the journey ends up being something we did not expect.

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It might have certain hardships or challenges we did not count on.

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Or it could bring us to places that are hard for us to endure.

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Journeys rarely unfold exactly the way we expect.

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And that is the beauty of them.

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For it is in the traveling of the path that we become something new.

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Our experiences of being exposed to someplace brand new changes us in a very real way.

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And the time we spent traveling from one place to another also brings out sides of ourselves we rarely see in everyday life.

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This is one of the greatest gifts of take a journey.

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It is in who we end up becoming in the process.

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The destination is almost secondary to the journey itself.

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For who we are when we leave, and who we are when we return, can be vastly different.

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This transmutation is something that cannot occur when we stay home.

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When we are in an environment that is safe and sound there is nothing to nudge us to grow and change.

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It is only when we expose ourselves to the world we do not know that we grow and thrive.

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We even learn to understand ourselves a bit better.

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And discover the deepest parts of ourselves that are waiting in the shadows to be revealed.

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So the most important part of going on a journey is who we become by allow ourselves to be exposed to a new environment.

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This journey is one that lasts our whole lives.

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Whether it is a physical journey or an internal journey, the results are the same.

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We become more of who we really are.

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Are you paying attention to the journey of your life?

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Or are you just focused on the destination?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour